Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier.
- François-Vincent Raspail
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![sans of a delicate skin, small pox marks or scars of any other na- ture. 174. Weak anodyne water contains about 1-18, the mean 1-14 and verv stron- 1-19 of Ammoniac. A simple addition of water will re- duce the very strong and the mean to the same degree of the weakest 175. Anodyne water in remaining in a flask acquires a smell ot bitter almonds, which is produced by the combination of amnloniac and camphor. 176. The following is the most expeditive way of preparing com- mon anodyne water without being obliged to weigh the several drugs:—Dissolve a handful of common salt in a tumbler of water. When this is dune and the water has recovered its limpidity, empty two small wine glasses filled with ammoniac in a quart bottle, then half a small wine glass of camphorated alcohol (139); and stir the bottle. Empty then the tumbler full of salt water, shake the bottle again, and fill up the bottle with common water. If you have a larger bottle and are desirous of augmenting your stock of anodyne water, you should empty in the bottle a tumbler lull of com- mon kitchen salt water, one tumbler full of camphorated ammoniac and the above quantity of camphorated alcohol, and sixteen tumblers full ol water. N. B. Anodyne water although prepared with the greatest care, will form a deposit of white powder, consequently the bottle must be well shaken before you use it. When you have salt water at hand, the preparation of anodyne water does not take more than a minute. 177. How to use anodyne water.—This water is used in lotions or compresses. When applied in lotions fill the palm of your hand and rub smoothly over the parts of the body you want it to act. When used as compresses, soak a linen folded in four in the water and apply on the parts you intend to relieve. When you employ anodyne water on the head, surround it with a thick- band to prevent the water running to your back and more especially in your eyes; place the compress well soaked on the head and sprinkle it with anodyne water until the patient is entirely re- lieved of pain, which, generally takes place in a few minutes. The application ot anodyne water compresses on the skin produces a burning which] may become disagreeable on certain parts of the body. They are to be withdrawn as soon as you feel the burning pain too strong. This last symptom, however, is soon relieved by the application of camphorated ointment on the parts burned. Besides, compresses are only used when lotions have not been sufficient to calm and dissipate the pain. There is another means of obtaining the'desired relief, in as sure a way, although somewhat slower, by applying on the part which appears to be the seat of pain, a poultice well sprinkled with anodvn-> water (166); it may remain a whole night without burning your skin.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
